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Patented July 19,1910

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UNITED STATES PATENT onmon.

ALBAN H. REID, OF FHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE-SUPPORT.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBAN I-I. REID, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machine-Supports, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

In the use of cream separators, in which the frame of the machine is supported by legs or standards adapted to rest-on the fioor, objections exist by reason of the difficulty and expense in packing and shipping, the waste space in the creamery occupied by the machine, and the inability to effect a thorough cleansing of the fioor of the room on account of the obstructions ofiered by the le s.

Ihe aim of my invention is to avoid these objectionable features, and the invention consists in providing the machine frame with a bracket or supporting means adapted to be attached to the wall of the room or other fixed part thereof, and which will serve to sustain the machine at a suitable elevation for its proper operation. By this means the floor space beneath the frame will be free and unobstructed, so that it may be thoroughly and effectually cleansed; and further in shipping or transporting the machines, the parts may be boxed in compact form and may be shipped at considerably less expense by reason of the saving in weight.

My invention is susceptible of various forms of embodiment, the drawings illustrating, by example, a form which I have found to answer in a satisfactory manner the results to be attained.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a centrifugal separator having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view showing the machine attached by its supporting bracket to the wall.

Referring to the drawings :1 represents H a casing or frame, in which the operative parts of the machine are mounted, and by which they are sustained. This frame may be of different forms and constructions and so also the operating mechanism which it supports. In the present instance, the frame consists of a casting formed at its lower end with'a stepped bearing 2, supporting a vertical driving spindle 3, carrying at its up- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 20, 1909.

Patented J uiy 19, 1910.

Serial No. 528,619.

per end a rotary separating bowl 4:, the spindle being driven by means of a hand crank 5, fixed to a shaft 6, mounted in bearings in the frame and carrying a large gear wheel 7 meshing with a small pinion 8 on a shaft 9, which latter carries a worm wheel 10, driving a worm 11 on the spindle. The large gear wheel, as is customary in machines of this type, is housed by a wheelguard in the form of a circular casting 12. This guard is firmly fastened to the frame of the machine by means of lugs 12 on its inner side formed with openings to receive fastening bolts which are screwed into the machine frame.

In applying my invention to a machine of this general type and construction, I propose to utilize this wheel-guard as a means for attaching the machine to the wall, so

that the guard will under these conditions perform a double functlon 1n protecting and houslng the gear-wheel and also in acting as a bracket or supporting means for fastening the machine to the wall. For this purpose, the guard is provided with a number of outwardly extending arms or brackets 13, formed with openings to receive bolts 14 for securing it firmly to the wall, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be necessary, of course, in order to adapt the guard to perform its function as a support for the machine frame, that it be made suffioiently heavy and stout, and that the lugs or arms and the bolts by which it is attached to the machine frame and to the wall be also correspondingly strong and heavy.

With the machine supported in the manner and by the means shown, the space beneath the frame is wholly free and unobstructed, but comparatively small space is occupied by the machine, and the latter as a whole is compact. As a result, the room in which the machine is operated may be kept thoroughly clean and sanitary, which is a great consideration in creameries; and further, the machine may be shipped in compact form and at far less expense than if provided with the usual cumbersome sustaining legs.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, the milk fed to the machine is supplied by means of a tank 20 having at one side a bracket 21 by which it may be secured to the wall in such relation to the machine that the milk from the reservoir may be conveniently introduced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a centrifugal separator, the combination of a frame, operating mechanism mounted therein, a gear wheel to operate said mechanism, and a wheel-guard fixed to the frame and inclos'ing the gear wheel, and provided with means to adapt it to be fastened to a wall or support; whereby the wheel-guard subserves the double function of housing the wheel and sustaining the machine above the floor.

2. In a centrifugal separator, the combination of a frame, operating mechanism mounted therein, a gear wheel to operate the 15 mechanism, a wheel-guard fixed to the side of the frame and inclosing the gear wheel, and having lugs projecting outwardly and provided with openings to adapt the guard to be fastened to a wall or support and 20 thereby sustain the frame.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBAN H. REID.

Witnesses WILLIAM E. ANDERSON, FRANK S. TANEY. 

